| Description |
x, 288 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Note |
Reprint of the 1928 ed. |
| Contents |
In explanation of technical terms -- Plants of ancient Egypt -- Plants of Assyria and China -- Plants of the old testament and of the wisdom of Solomon -- Phenician commerce and Greek myth -- Plants of Homer -- The father of medicine and the early Greek philosophers -- Father of natural history and his favourite pupils -- Greek scholars at Alexandria -- Pliny, the encyclopaedist of the first century -- A choice manuscript of a little-known physician -- Arab physicians and merchants -- The school of Salerno -- From Charlemagne to Albertus Magnus -- Two great travellers -- The new world -- The Renaissance -- A truculent protestant -- First investigators in India -- Conrad Gesner and the Bauhins -- The school of Montpellier and Flanders -- An historic printing house: Plantin and clusius -- The barber-Surgeon of Holborn and his editor -- The fist systematist -- Some early days at the royal society -- John Ray -- Sir Hans Sloane and the Chelsea physic garden -- Sexes of plants and some Jacobite botanists -- Some early physiological experiments -- Linnaeus -- The natural system in France -- Kew -- Physic: Farces and Feuds -- Robert Brown -- Plant-collecting in the tropics, its suggestons and its dangers |
| Subject |
Botanists -- Biography.
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Botanists -- Biography. |
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Botany -- History.
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Botany. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Boulger, G. S. (George Simonds), 1853-1922.
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| ISBN |
0836911393 |
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